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Word: headedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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As the families of America headed home after the closing hymn, they looked like the people of many another congregation across the land-people with steady faith in themselves and the world in which God had placed them.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Christmas in America | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Dingaan's treachery was soon punished. Later that year, on Dec. 16, 1838, on the banks of Natal's Blood River, another Voortrekker column, headed by Boer Leader Andries Pretorius, bloodily defeated Dingaan's plume-decked, assagai-hurling horde. Of 12,000 Zulus, more than 3,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: On Dingaan's Day | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

It took eleven hard-tackling New York cops to arrest famed Drop-Kicker Charles C. Brickley, 58, Harvard All-America (1912-13) and his 30-year-old son, Charles Brickley Jr., during an early-morning brawl in a Manhattan restaurant. According to testimony, the fight started when Brickley overheard someone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Tough All Over | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

It was not until after World War I (where, he says, he was wounded when a case of salmon fell on his foot-"It gives me a picturesque limp on rainy days") that he went through the University of Pennsylvania and graduated summa cum laude. As soon as he could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Sentimentalist | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Wallach has been attempting to prove, for the past two weeks, that St. Benedict's Center, headed by Father Feeney, has no right to GI Bill funds. According to the State Department of Education, an educational institution must meet four criteria for certification. Wallach claims that St. Benedict's fails...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'New Witness' Is Claimed in Feeney Probe | 12/20/1949 | See Source »

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